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Additive Plant Operator Salary
in Louisville, Kentucky

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$42,778 (USD)

Average Salary

$21/hr

Average Hourly

$599

Average Bonus

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The average pay for an Additive Plant Operator is $42,778 a year and $21 an hour in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The average salary range for an Additive Plant Operator is between $31,527 and $50,777. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Louisville, Kentucky.

ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.

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Estimated salary in 2029:
$48,051
5 Year Change:
12 %

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About Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville Cost of Living Score:

Description: Louisville (varying pronunciations: LOO-ee-vil, US: LOO-ə-vəl, locally LUUV-əl) is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians...
Description:
  • Operates panelboard to control conveying, blending, washing, crushing, and sizing of coal, rock, sand, gravel, or ore to prepare it for commercial or industrial use or for further processing: pushes levers and buttons to start plant machinery.
  • Studies customer orders or work schedules and adjusts controls to draw specified amounts and proportions of different grades of materials from storage bins onto conveyors.
  • Observes dials and gauges to route materials through series of screens, wash boxes, crushers, and driers.
  • Reads ammeters to determine load on conveyors and regulates loads to adjust blends.
  • Observes panel lights and meters for indication of overloads, malfunctions, or plugged chutes, and shuts down plant, reroutes materials, or adjusts controls to regulate feed.
  • Notifies maintenance and loading personnel of delays or malfunctions.
  • Observes operation to determine that refuse and tailings are removed as specified.
  • May operate equipment to dump material from cars.

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Salary Recap

The average pay for an Additive Plant Operator is $42,778 a year and $21 an hour in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The average salary range for an Additive Plant Operator is between $31,527 and $50,777. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Louisville, Kentucky.

ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.

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Job Statistics

Additive Plant Operator Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Plant and System Operators, All Other

Job family population: 15,370

Estimated population of Additive Plant Operator jobs: 628

Rate of error: 3.1%

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Louisville Cost of Living Score:

Description: Louisville (varying pronunciations: LOO-ee-vil, US: LOO-ə-vəl, locally LUUV-əl) is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians...
Description:
  • Operates panelboard to control conveying, blending, washing, crushing, and sizing of coal, rock, sand, gravel, or ore to prepare it for commercial or industrial use or for further processing: pushes levers and buttons to start plant machinery.
  • Studies customer orders or work schedules and adjusts controls to draw specified amounts and proportions of different grades of materials from storage bins onto conveyors.
  • Observes dials and gauges to route materials through series of screens, wash boxes, crushers, and driers.
  • Reads ammeters to determine load on conveyors and regulates loads to adjust blends.
  • Observes panel lights and meters for indication of overloads, malfunctions, or plugged chutes, and shuts down plant, reroutes materials, or adjusts controls to regulate feed.
  • Notifies maintenance and loading personnel of delays or malfunctions.
  • Observes operation to determine that refuse and tailings are removed as specified.
  • May operate equipment to dump material from cars.
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